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Hymn: We ask for peace O Lord (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: We ask for peace O Lord

Topic: The Gospel/Spirit of Adoption

Writer: <no first name given> Pocter

Composer:

Meter: PM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 423

Page Number: 257, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

We ask for peace, O Lord!

Thy children ask thy peace;

Not what the world calls rest,

That toil and care should cease,

That through bright sunny hours

Calm life should fleet away.

And tranquil night should fade

In smiling day, --

It is not for such peace that we would pray.



We ask for peace, O Lord!

Yet not to stand secure.

Girt round with iron pride,

Contented to endure:

Crushing the gentle strings.

That human hearts should know,

Untouched by others' joys

Or others' wo: --

Thou, O dear Lord, wilt never teach us so.



We ask thy peace, O Lord!

Through storm, and fear, and strife,

To light and guide us on,

Through along struggling life:

While no success or gain

Shall cheer the desperate fight,

Or nerve, what the world calls,

Our wasted might:

Yet pressing through the darkness to the light.



It is thine own, O Lord!

Who toil while others sleep,

Who sow with loving care

What other hands shall reap:

They lean on thee entranced

In calm and perfect rest:

Give us that peace, O Lord!

Divine and blest.

Though keepest for those hearts who love thee best.